Tower of Babel: A Scientific Explanation?
September 5, 2025
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Episode 861 · September 5, 2025
Tower of Babel: A Scientific Explanation?
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<p>Was the Tower of Babel really about God magically inventing new languages? Or could it have been something far more physical, natural, and scientific?In this fascinating episode, guest Jerry Grover joins host Cardon Ellis to propose a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the biblical Babel account. Drawing from the Book of Ether, floodplain studies, and modern science, Grover suggests that mosquito-borne encephalitis—not an instant linguistic miracle—may have caused the “confounding of languages.”</p>
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